Chapter 1

Skye's POV

"You want me to go keep up the defenceless hacker act while I'm out in the field" I ask Maria, while editing a new rising tide video. I couldn't wait to get out of this van away from all these crazy 'hacktivists' I had been monitoring while undercover.

"Yes, I want you to keep an eye on your dad's new team and him. It will be easier to do that as a consultant then a level 9 Specialist" Maria explains.

"Maybe you can bump me up to level ten" I joke knowing that she will say no, I had been trying to persuade her and Fury to put me up to level ten since when I was twenty.

"I'm not having this conversation with you again Skye. You will get level ten clearance when you have had more experience" she sighs we have had this conversation a lot in the past five years.

"Okay, the mission" I say getting serious "Keep rising tide cover, watch the team, keep an eye on AC, Anything else?" I ask using the nickname I gave Dad for when we were working together.

There is a hesitated pause before Maria continues, "The Pilot you will have to watch her too" Maria says and I get a sick feeling in my stomach.

"Maria" I growl.

"I'm sorry, but we need to watch Coulson and no one knows him better then your Mum. Will it be a problem if you two are in the field together?" Maria asks, and I sigh. Mum and I had always been close, then Bahrain happened and there were days where she wouldn't even look at me or she would just avoid me.

"You would have to ask her" I sigh "It's been better since…New York" I say fighting off the memories from that day.

"I will" She says before switching to Commander mode. "Continue with your mission. An agent will pick you up within the week. Then you will be following Coulson's orders without complaint"

"Yes, ma'am" I smirk having gotten in trouble a lot in the past for complaining about taking Dad's orders when I have a higher clearance level.

"Keep Safe Agent Mayson. Hill out" Maria says before hanging up and leaving me in silence again to post a new video.

Coulson's POV

"Was the bag really necessary Dad, you seriously messed up my hair" Skye says walking towards me in the command centre, frantically trying to fix her hair. I can't help but laugh, as I give her a quick hug and check that she is okay, she always had been a little obsessed with her hair

"Sorry, I didn't know it was you we were picking up. Hill just told me that it was someone both Melinda and I knew and that we had to keep your cover" I tell her moving back over to the table. "Your Mum should be back any second with the scientists on the team" I say, pulling up the video from the news of the 'hooded hero' and Skye seems a little shocked by what she sees.

"That's not the guy I meet he was looking at the paper trying to find a job. He just needs a break" She says eyes on the screen.

"Then let's give him one" I tell her and she pulls something out of her pocket and start tapping away at the table. I continue to stare at her she has changed her hair and her clothes seem a little different from what she usually wears, I'm guessing it is all part of her cover. It's then that I realize how much I have missed her, I haven't seen her in months and only briefly when I returned from Tahiti before she was sent on a new mission.

"Coulson" Skye shouts she must have been trying to get my attention for a while for her to get to the point of using my last name when we are alone.

"Sorry, what were you saying"

"I was telling you about Mike, but you weren't listening"

"Sorry, Ive just missed you" I say giving her another hug.

"I've missed you too" she says returning the hug, we move to opposite sides of the room when we here voices coming up the stairs from the cargo bay.

"Agent May will escort you" I tell Skye after she and Fitzsimmons start talking about something I don't understand at all.

Skye's POV

I walk nervously down to my van, not that my training would let it show, I wasn't sure if it was my Mum that was coming with me or if it was the person that came back from Bahrain. Mum had been getting better since Dad died she was less distant, she would avoid me less I even got a few hugs every now and then. She was still distant some days but I guess that wasn't going to completely go away. As soon as we got to my van and were no longer in view of the other agents Mum pulled me in to a hug, once I got over the initial shock I quickly returned the hug.

"I can't breath, Bookworm" Mum says a few minutes later. I reluctantly pull away, fighting not to grin when I hear her call me by the nickname she gave me as a kid she barely used it anymore.

"Sorry" I sigh climbing in to the drivers seat.

"Have you been living in here?" Mum asks turning round in her seat to look in the back of the van.

"Yup, it's not the best undercover mission I've done" I sigh, remembering the time I was a billionaire while undercover.

"It doesn't seem very safe" she says, and I roll my eyes this had been the least dangerous mission I had ever done. "Are you going to be okay back in the field you have only done a few undercover assignments and taught a few course at operations since…"

"New York" I finish for her. "I will just be coming on as a Consultant I'll be fine. Will you be okay?" I finish quietly.

"I'm just the pilot" Mum says as I turn into the ally. I quickly get in the back and start sending files to Fitz, quickly hiding my memory card before Mum can see.

May's POV

I wake up alone in an ally and it takes a second to remember where I am. It's then that I notice that Skye and her van is gone I quickly pull out my phone to call Phil. Only to be told to wait there to be picked up, not knowing where Skye is I have no choice but to wait. Letting the nervous fear build up in my stomach.

When I arrive at the train station, I see Skye being pulled up the stairs by Mike and there is a man with a gun following him that appears to be a third party. I arrive upstairs in time to see Mike falling over the railing and back down to the first floor. The third party turns the gun on Skye, before she can do anything I have the man disarmed and unconscious. I walk over to where she is still on the floor from being pushed out of the way and I'm about to help her up but she is already jumping to her feet complaining about how she could have done that I roll my eyes following her down stairs to where Phil is giving a little speech. I fight to keep my emotions in check hearing him talk about how being around giants nearly cost him everything. When in reality it did, he left behind Skye and I when he decided to go after the Loki on his own, he left us without a husband and a father, even if he didn't know it. I look over at Skye and can tell that she is struggling with what he is saying too. Then we hear a gun go off and everything seems to slow down as Mike's body drops to the floor.

Skye's POV

"I told Ace his Dad is coming home" I say to dad as we walk back over to Lola.

"He will be" Dad says.

"That was one way to get back into the field almost being blown up" I tell him partly wishing I had taken the desk job I had been offered earlier in the year.

"Not exactly how I pictured our first mission going" Dad days getting into Lola.

"It's a brave new world and a really old car" I say laughing at the glare dad sends me.

"Lola can keep up. Are you staying or are you going to annoy Hill until she gives you new orders?" Dad asks, I pretend to think about it but really I have no plans on leaving him and Mum in the field without me.

"I'm not exactly a team player"

"Were not exactly a team but we are in a position to do some good. Besides you were willing to join the Avengers they were a team….Eventually" He says, I roll my eyes looking away from him but before I can think of something to say Dads phone rings. Dad answers and Wards voice comes through Lola's speakers telling Dad that we have an 0-8-4.

"Is that conformed?" Dad asks we haven't had an 0-8-4 since Thor's hammer.

"They want us to go in and confirm it" Ward says before hanging up.

"Guess we have a job to do" I tell dad.

"You have ten minutes to change your mind"

"There is no way we can get to the air field in ten minutes" Dad doesn't say anything he just stars Lola and begins to drive away it takes a second to realize Lola is moving upwards instead of forwards.

"Dad, how long has been Lola been able to fly?" I ask still in shock.

"She's always been able to fly" he says calmly.

"What? Why did you never tell me?" I yell.

"Your Mum threatened to get rid of Lola if I told you she could fly before you were sixteen"

"Why?" I ask looking out of Lola and at the ground below us.

"She was worried about you falling out. She thought I was a terrible driver"

"Well, she isn't wrong but I'm 25. Why am I only finding out now" I ask.

"Because you stole Lola a week before you turned sixteen and drove over an hour away to go visit Trip" I slowly turn to him with my mouth hanging open, I thought I had gotten away with that. "Did you really think I wouldn't have some sort of security system. I knew about it the second you started the ignition"

"Sorry" I mumble.